As chief corporate development officer, Conlon will oversee business development strategies and lead the company’s efforts to expand its line of services for artists, labels, music publishers, and licensees. His previous role was as SoundExchange’s chief external affairs officer.

“Richard’s leadership in the music industry makes him the ideal person to help drive our strategy to grow SoundExchange into a diversified portfolio of companies and services for the entire industry… SoundExchange is helping re-order the business of music by creating solutions that facilitate royalty distributions to music creators, setting standards and service levels that the industry can rely upon. SoundExchange is committed to innovation and growth delivered at the speed of digital.”